Francesco Antonio Begnudelli-Basso

A canonist who lived at the end of
the seventeenth century; died at Freising, 9 October, 1713. From
1675 he was Vicar-General of Trent, his native place. In 1679,
however, he held a canonry in the Cathedral of Freising, where
also he became in 1696 vicar-general of the diocese, and where he
died. His "Bibliotheca juris canonico-civilis practica seu
repertoium quaestionum magis practicarum in utroque foro"
ranked him among the best canonists of his day. His canonical
acumen is especiallynoteworthy, while he speaks in the clearest
terms of papal infallibility. The work was published in Freising
in 1712, for vols. in folio; Geneva, 1747; Modena and Venice,
1758. It has, however, lost its practical usefulness owing to the
later editions of Lucius Ferraris's "Bibliotheca", which
is vastly superior to the work of Begnudelli.